Flow-obstacle interaction in rapid granular avalanches: DEM simulation and comparison with experiment

Granular Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 209-220

  Teufelsbauer, Harald ^a   Wang, Y ^a,b   Chiou, M C ^b   Wu, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avalanche defense structures; Avalanche flow; Chute flow; Distinct element method; Flow obstacle interaction; Granular material; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DEFENSE STRUCTURES; AVALANCHE FLOW; CHUTE FLOW; DISTINCT ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW-OBSTACLE INTERACTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

EXPERIMENTS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; SIMULATORS;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 67650239570     PISSN: 14345021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10035-009-0142-6     Document Type: Article

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